'Ray Edmondson OAM Ph.D. is a consultant in audiovisual archiving. He was Deputy Director of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) from its creation in 1984 until 2001, and prior to that had headed the film archive operations of the National Library of Australia since 1968. Globally, he holds life achievement awards from several professional federations, and in 1996 he was the founding president of SEAPAVAA (South East Asia Pacific AudioVisual Archive Association). In a long association with UNESCO he has held various leadership positions in its ‘Memory of the World’ programme. He is an international teacher and author, and his writings have been widely translated.' (Source: Studies in Australasian Cinema Volume 9, Issue 3, 2015)
